More Than A Magazine, A Movement
The June G7 summit focused on climate change and the environment, energy solutions, pandemic preparedness and response, food security, foreign and security policy, and a just transition, as outlined in the outcome document, or communique.
The communique also included important language and some policy adherence on gender equality, there were few tangible and financial commitments.
Gender parity doesn’t necessarily mean the U.N. is working better, and towards the interests of women, girls and marginalized populations. If the U.N. is to “leave no one behind,” it must fully grasp the multiple forms of discrimination holding people back.
It’s time U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres accepts and takes on recommendations for making intersectionality central to the U.N.’s mandate.
There’s a real opportunity for G7 and G20 countries to drive the feminist agenda forward this year—but first, they must unify.
